Every time I get sick I become contemplative. The recent topic: Karma. It comes up a lot and I frequently question what I was taught about it.
I've mentioned it before but one of the individuals I spoke to about it is an Indian buddhist with a confusing system of castes and reincarnation. He's deeply religious/spiritual but his culture is so very different from mine our approach to Buddhism so very different.
He's basically waiting to reincarnate as the only purpose to his life.
As I watch the current state of the world, I see not very good people lead long healthy lives. Did they do so well in the last that this is the reward?
I also experience very good people who treat others well have terrible lives of hardship. Are they paying for the previous? If they endure this one, will they be "kings" in the next?
And where did all the extra souls come from? Another realm? The animal kingdom?
But above all, if one is an evil person with intent but successful in subsequent reincarnations do they become a different person? Doesn't that change their personality?
Obviously it's not that simple.
Any thoughts?
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